Mark, If your virtual machine has the TODENABLE value coded in the OPTION statement that defines your virtual machine you can then use the SET VTOD command to set the TOD clock for your virtual machine.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:38 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Local time w/SLES 10 >>> On 12/22/2008 at 8:58 AM, Steve Mitchell <steve.mitch...@bcbsks.com> >>> wrote: > We set the time on VM via the HMC to local time. This is almost always a bad idea for a mainframe. > With our SLES 9 guests we > had no problem with times. However with SLES 10 we do. -snip- > How do we get the SLES10 guest to use local time as the SLES 9 did? The only safe way I can think of is to: - Tell z/VM that it is in timezone UTC - Tell Linux the hardware clock is in local time - Tell Linux it is in timezone UTC Mark Post
